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Russian

DEFINITIONS OF: Russian

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adj of or pertaining to or characteristic of Russia or its people or culture or language

Russian dancing”

n a native or inhabitant of Russia

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Tatar
a member of the Turkic-speaking people living from the Volga to the Ural Mountains (the name has been attributed to many other groups)
Udmurt, Votyak
a member of the Finno-Ugric-speaking people living in eastern European Russia
Komi
a member of a Finnish people living in the northwestern Urals in Russia
Cheremis, Cheremiss, Mari
a member of a rural Finnish people living in eastern Russia
Inger, Ingerman, Ingrian
a member of western Finnish people formerly living in the Baltic province where Saint Petersburg was built
Carelian, Karelian
a member of the Finnish people living in Karelia in northwestern European Russia
Khanty, Ostyak
a member of the nomadic Ugrian people living in northwestern Siberia (east of the Urals)
Mordva, Mordvin, Mordvinian
a member of the agricultural people living in the central Volga provinces of European Russia
Nganasan
a member of the Samoyedic people living on the Taimyr Peninsula in Siberia
Ostyak-Samoyed, Selkup
one of the people of mixed Ostyak and Samoyed origin in Siberia
Samoyed
a Samoyedic-speaking person in northwestern Siberia
Veps, Vepse, Vepsian
a member of a Finnish people of Russia
Mansi, Vogul
a member of a nomadic people of the northern Urals
Yeniseian
a member of one of the groups living in the Yenisei river valley in western Siberia
Great Russian
a member of the chief stock of Russian people living in European Russia; used to distinguish ethnic Russians from other peoples incorporated into Russia
Muscovite
a resident of Moscow
Georgian
a native or inhabitant of Georgia in Asia
Siberian
a native or inhabitant of Siberia
Chechen
a native or inhabitant of Chechnya
Chukchi
a member of an indigenous people living on the Chukchi Peninsula
Type of:
aboriginal, aborigine, indigen, indigene, native
an indigenous person who was born in a particular place

n the Slavic language that is the official language of Russia

Type of:
Slavic, Slavic language, Slavonic, Slavonic language
a branch of the Indo-European family of languages
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